by Joe Chaffin | Dec 16, 2020 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Donation, Transfusion Complications |
Blood banks have numerous tools to keep blood safe from transfusion-transmitted infection. Suchi Pandey helps us understand them all! Blood transfusion is less likely to transmit infections today than ever. Through a combination of screening questions, donor testing,...
by Joe Chaffin | Mar 18, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Special Topic |
Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse transfusion based on strong religious beliefs. Despite this, blood bankers must be prepared to assist in their care. There’s a pretty good chance that most of you are not overly familiar with such texts as Genesis 9:4, Leviticus...
by Joe Chaffin | Oct 29, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Immunohematology, Transfusion Complications |
A 25-year-old, A negative female needs blood. She will receive RhD-negative RBCs, of course, but what about antigen matching for Kell, or for other Rh antigens? Meghan Delaney explains the “AMIGO Study.” Most of us are aware of how hemolytic disease of the...
by Joe Chaffin | Sep 26, 2018 | BBGuy Podcast, Immunohematology |
“Oh, no! There’s an isolated reaction that we can’t explain!” Brenda Grossman helps you understand what these reactions are, and what they might (or might not) become. Blood bankers everywhere can describe the frustration of trying to screen a...
by Joe Chaffin | Jul 10, 2019 | BBGuy Podcast, Blood Products, Special Topic |
What’s cold is hot again! Here’s how one facility answered all the questions and implemented trauma whole blood in 2018. It feels like pretty much everyone is discussing cold-stored, low-titer, group O whole blood (LTOWB) today. Trauma surgeons hear about...